Harvard Creates Brain-to-Brain Interface - Still No Hoverboard

[PsYcNeT]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...thoughts-alone

Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat’s tail.

The human wears a run-of-the-mill EEG-based BCI, while the mouse is equipped with a focused ultrasound (FUS) computer-brain interface (CBI). FUS is a relatively new technology that allows the researchers to excite a very specific region of neurons in the rat’s brain using an ultrasound signal. The main advantage of FUS is that, unlike most brain-stimulation techniques, such as DBS, it isn’t invasive.

The paper:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:...l.pone.0060410

[CaptainCrunch]

I want to see the military applications. I want to be able to send enough power across long distances to make peoples heads explode.

Or even to make them give themselves a swirly.

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[Northendzone]

great - hopefully i can somehow use this to lure supermodels back to my hotel room.